# Quote — David Brin, Startide Rising

> You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

- Author: [David Brin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin.md)
- Book: [Startide Rising](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/startide-rising.md)
- Page: 238
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin#Startide_Rising_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/startide-rising/you-dont-have

## More from this book

> He wasn’t afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important.

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/startide-rising/he-wasnt-afraid.md)

> “Where there is mind, there is always solution,” Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

p. 183 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/startide-rising/where-there-is-mind.md)

> What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

p. 199 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/startide-rising/what-point-was.md)